Boxed (NYSE:BOXD) & Meiwu Technology (NYSE:WNW) Head-To-Head Contrast

Boxed (NYSE:BOXD – Get Rating) and Meiwu Technology (NYSE:WNW – Get Rating) are both small-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Boxed and Meiwu Technology, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Boxed	0	1	1	0	2.50
Meiwu Technology	0	0	0	0	N/A

Boxed presently has a consensus target price of $2.23, indicating a potential upside of 2,111.22%. Given Boxed’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Boxed is more favorable than Meiwu Technology.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Boxed and Meiwu Technology’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Boxed	$177.27 million	0.04	-$69.22 million	($3.02)	-0.03
Meiwu Technology	$12.26 million	0.47	-$1.08 million	N/A	N/A

Meiwu Technology has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Boxed.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

35.5% of Boxed shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 0.6% of Meiwu Technology shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.0% of Boxed shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Boxed and Meiwu Technology’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Boxed	-75.33%	N/A	-71.75%
Meiwu Technology	N/A	N/A	N/A

Risk & Volatility

Boxed has a beta of 2.81, indicating that its stock price is 181% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Meiwu Technology has a beta of 1.68, indicating that its stock price is 68% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Boxed beats Meiwu Technology on 6 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Boxed

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Boxed, Inc. operates as an e-commerce retailer and an e-commerce enabler in the continental United States. The company through its e-commerce retail service provides branded and private labelled bulk pantry consumables, such as paper products, snacks, beverages, cleaning supplies, etc. to B2C and B2B customers, vendors, and enterprise retailers, as well as household customers. It also provides Boxed IQ, a content management suite, programmatic cost-per-click ad-platform, and vendor portal data suite, that offers vendors, suppliers, and CPG manufacturers the ability to advertise their products to customers, and access customer data and feedback in real-time; on-demand grocery services; and an enterprise-level e-commerce platform. Boxed, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

About Meiwu Technology

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Meiwu Technology Company Limited operates as an online and mobile commerce company in the People's Republic of China. The company operates through Clean Food Platform, Restaurant, and others segments. The company offers green food, organic food, intangible cultural heritage food, agricultural products, and pollution-free products. It also engages the provision of restaurant services; and wholesale of agricultural products. The company was formerly known as Wunong Net Technology Company Limited and changes its name to Meiwu Technology Company Limited in August 2021. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, the People's Republic of China.